Bill Text: NY A06051 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates mental health incident review panels.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-28 - print number 6051a [A06051 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06051-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6051--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 11, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RODRIGUEZ, LINARES, ARROYO -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  COOK, CROUCH, GLICK, LAWRENCE, MOSLEY, RIVERA,  SIMON  --
          read  once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- recommit-
          ted to the Committee on Mental Health in accordance with Assembly Rule
          3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene  law  and the education law, in
          relation to creating mental health incident review panels
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  31.38 to read as follows:
     3  § 31.38 Mental health incident review panels.
     4    (a) The commissioner is authorized to establish a mental health  inci-
     5  dent  review  panel  for the purposes of reviewing the circumstances and
     6  events related to a serious incident  involving  a  person  with  mental
     7  illness.   For purposes of this section, a "serious incident involving a
     8  person with mental illness" means an incident occurring in the community
     9  in which a person with a serious mental illness is physically injured or
    10  causes physical injury to another  person,  or  suffers  a  serious  and
    11  preventable medical complication or becomes involved in a criminal inci-
    12  dent  involving violence. A panel shall conduct a review of such serious
    13  incident in an attempt to identify problems or  gaps  in  mental  health
    14  delivery  systems  and to make recommendations for corrective actions to
    15  improve the provision of mental health or related services,  to  improve
    16  the  coordination,  integration and accountability of care in the mental
    17  health service system, and to enhance individual and public safety.
    18    (b) A mental health incident review panel shall include, but need  not
    19  be  limited to, representatives from the office of mental health and the
    20  local governmental unit where the serious incident  involving  a  person
    21  with  a  mental  illness occurred. A mental health incident review panel
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06901-03-6